Upcoming May and June EQAO Webinars for Families

Join the Education Quality and Accountability Office (EQAO) for free live webinars for parents and guardians in May and June. Families are invited to attend the sessions below. Please read the descriptions below and click on the links to register and join the webinars:

EQAO Math Night for Parents and Guardians - Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.
Join us for a free live webinar where EQAO staff will discuss math questions that Ontario students encounter when they participate in Ontario’s large-scale assessments. These assessments are taken by all Ontario students in Grades 3, 6 and 9. During the webinar, EQAO staff will show how these math questions help assess the skills students are learning in their math classes. Staff will also share valuable insights from EQAO research into assessment results, which can help parents and guardians support their children’s math learning. Please click here to register.

EQAO Math Session for Parents/Guardians of Grade 9 Students - Wednesday, May 20, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.
Join us for a free webinar about how EQAO assesses Grade 9 students’ mathematics learning. EQAO staff will discuss mathematics questions from the Grade 9 Assessment of Mathematics. Participants will hear how these questions help assess the skills students are learning in class. Staff will also highlight valuable insights and resources that can help parents and guardians support their child’s learning. Please click here to register.

EQAO Literacy Session for Families: Focus on Reading - Wednesday, June 3, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.
Join us for a free live webinar about how EQAO assesses students’ reading skills at key stages of their education. EQAO staff will discuss reading samples and questions from the Primary & Junior Reading Assessments, and the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. Participants will hear how these reading passages and questions help assess the skills students are learning in class. Staff will also highlight valuable insights & resources that can help parents and guardians support their child’s learning. Please click here to register.

Screen Time & Academic Achievement on EQAO Assessments - Tuesday, June 9, 2026 at 6:00 p.m.
EQAO is pleased to welcome the TARGet Kids! Research Team (www.targetkids.ca) as they present their work examining the relationship between children’s screen time and other health behaviours and academic achievement over time on EQAO's large-scale assessments of reading, writing and mathematics. Team members from EQAO and TARGet Kids! will answer participants’ questions about this important research. Live English to French translation will be available to participants. Please click here to register.

EQAO Literacy Session for Families: Focus on Writing - Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 12:00 p.m.
Join us for a free live webinar about how EQAO assesses students’ writing skills at key stages of their education. EQAO staff will discuss writing prompts and questions from the reading component of the primary- and junior-division assessments and from the Ontario Secondary School Literacy Test. Participants will hear how these prompts and questions help assess the skills students are learning in class. Staff will also highlight valuable insights and resources that can help parents and guardians support their child’s learning. Please click here to register.